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Posted by: AGelbert

However, the Renewable Revolution continues to gather steam. I believe that my petition motivated hundreds of caring human beings to challenge the dirty energy status quo and champion the transition to 100% Renewable Energy. They, in turn, have influenced thousands.

So, at least in that respect, the petition was a partial success. Good!

Those thousands have joined with thousands of others championing Renewable Energy to influence millions to work for a world where the Viable Biosphere Math of Cooperation and Caring supplants the mindless and suicidal Wall Street, Social Darwinian, Empathy Deficit Disordered world view celebrating predation and exploitation.

Posted by: AGelbert

It's time to reverse all this environmental trashing and get real about the fact that sustainability is not optional for a caring, intelligent human population. We are the caretakers of the biosphere because we are self aware beings. It's high time we began living up to our responsibility to be good stewards of nature.

"Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors; we borrow it from our Children." Ancient American Indian Proverb

Progress on Petition to Demand a 100% World War 2 Style Transition to Renewable energy using the Manufacturing Miracle Model of the Liberty Ships:

Ms. Regina Hendrix, WV Oct 23, 11:32 The greedy fools have made Southern WV unlivable. After 6 out of 8 members of my family had cancer, I'm not inclined to stick around for my turn. I have left the area but I'm very concerned about the rest of my family who can't afford to leave. Stop mountaintop removal now!

Dr. Helen Giambruni, CA You no longer have anything important to lose by devoting yourself to saving the planet. Use your power while still you have it to support clean, renewable energy.

Mrs. Julia Rapczynski, NY To enhance your climate change action you need to give stronger supports and incentives to renewable energy, especially, solar such that would help extend the effects of DoE's SunShot and SunPath program.

Mr. Geoffrey Gunning, Ireland Most of the worlds population seem intent only on using the earth for what it can give to them during their short tenure on this planet. Does anybody care about the future? Too few it seems. What will future generations make of us and the way we threw it all away

Ms. Pam Russell, CO Please get moving on cleaning up the environmental damage; on putting all USA intellectual and technical energy, governmental funding into transitioning to CLEAN ENERGY! We the People are SO tired of waiting the "The change we can believe in." Fracking, deep sea drilling, nuclear power plants, spreading poisons over our farmlands, pouring poisons, filth, fossil fuels, etc., into our lakes and rivers, manufacturing SO MUCH JUNK THAT IS MOSTLY PLASTIC only to throw it into landfills, AND THE OCEANS - This ALL MUST STOP IMMEDIATELY!! PLEASE!

Mr. Ron McCullough, TN We as a nation have to free ourselves from the tyranny and boundless greed of the fossil fuel oligarchs that keep us in the Dark Ages of renewable energy. How is it good governance to destroy the Earth for short term gains for the 1%? It's not. It's the result of corruption and cowardice of elected officials and it must stop!

Mr. Troy Kilbourne, MN A "Manhattan Project" for renewable energy is, I believe, the only thing that can reverse our course towards catastrophic climate change. We did it back then, and we can do it now.

Mr. Stephen Spaulding, NH The fossil fuel industry knows its stranglehold on us inevitably has to end. It's feverishly trying every way it can to lock us into dependence for another half-century. We cannot allow this to happen.

Ms. Jean Elliott, IL This is an emergency. Climate and pollution disasters loom unless we get off fossil fuels.

Sandra Doney, LA Let's care about quality of life and get our priorities straight!

Ms. Cecily Smith, AB The technology for renewable energy has already been developed and just needs investment. Leave fossil fuels down in the ground, No more pipelines!

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Look at this picture WORTH A LOT MORE THAN A THOUSAND "WORDS" (i.e. millions of cancers, severe pollution, biosphere degradation and billions of dollars in DIRTY "profits from WE-THE-PEOPLE):http://viewrz.com/video/fossil-fuel-government

Progress on: Petition to Demand a WORLD WAR TWO STYLE MASSIVE, ALL OUT EFFORT to transition to 100% Renewable Energy within a DECADEMrs. Louise Christoffersen, QC Jul 25, 00:29 # 331 This is a major issue for the whole planet and we all need to take action right now. What's happening in my province (La belle province...) is the complete opposite. There will be a major oil drilling on l'Île d'Anticosti which is a natural reserve (Gulf of the St-Lawrence), the Transcanada pipeline that will cross the province and a maritime terminal in Cacouna (St-Lawrence river) for tankers and fracking in many parts of the province. Whatever the protests, citizens, city and municipal authorities, résidents, First Nations, Greenpeace, the Suzuki Foundation, etc. The Harper gov. keeps signing... $$$. Our former provincial government had bought back l'Île d'Anticosti to preserve it from being exploited and to give it the status of a protected land. She was not to sign yet for all the rest until studies would proove the safety of all the other exploitations. She was more environment oriented. But since the last elections, the new provincial government is only thinking business. We will continue to stand against it. We have a lot of hydro-electricity which is "almost" clean, but not quite. I believe in solar energy, wind and even free energy. (Tesla). But that would shake the whole economy as we know it and would not please the ones who benefit from the oïl and gas industry. They would just have to opt for other professions, with new values. I know it can be done. The more of us who speak up, and put it in action, the more it will happen.

Mr. Ron McCullough, TN Jul 18, 19:51 # 304 We as a nation have to free ourselves from the tyranny and boundless greed of the fossil fuel oligarchs that keep us in the Dark Ages of renewable energy. How is it good governance to destroy the Earth for short term gains for the 1%? It's not. It's the result of corruption and cowardice of elected officials and it must stop!

Mr. Troy Kilbourne, MN Jul 18, 18:48 # 303 A "Manhattan Project" for renewable energy is, I believe, the only thing that can reverse our course towards catastrophic climate change. We did it back then, and we can do it now.

Mr. Stephen Spaulding, NH Jul 17, 06:00 # 302 The fossil fuel industry knows its stranglehold on us inevitably has to end. It's feverishly trying every way it can to lock us into dependence for another half-century. We cannot allow this to happen.

Ms. Jean Elliott, IL Jul 16, 09:44 # 300 This is an emergency. Climate and pollution disasters loom unless we get off fossil fuels.Please sign this petition. The Biosphere you save will be your own.Here is the link to the petition: http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/Ai3Tb

Nothing about this issue and our denial of the evidence accruing every day before our eyes surprises me. The money the 1% throw at this issue virtually guarantees many fools will have questions. The evidence, scientific evidence, is out there, available and unassailable - yet the republican party and its masters continue to value money over life. Make no mistake that is what this is about. We change or we die. A mass extinction event making this planet uninhabitable for oxygen based life forms is coming, it may be a century or so before the full effects are seen, but the precursors are already here. But those who value money over human life think that because they will not be inconvenienced, it matters not. These are the most selfish people in human history, they don't care at all about what their own heirs will face, they know they won't face it themselves and they don't care about anyone else, not even their own grandchildren. They make me sick. Literally, because the foul effects of climate change are already affecting daily life with the ever increasing super storms, the incredible disruption in our oceans, the deteriorating quality of our air and the countless new and old diseases are children are already suffering from. None of that matters as much as piling up money to them. Nothing will change until the people rise up. But even that, I fear, is too little, too late at this point. We've done the damage, now we'll have to deal with the carnage to come. I do not believe in hell, but there are times I wish I did. Because people like this deserve a special seat next to the fire for the hell they are creating for the generations to come who will live through the results of our stupidity now, until life ceases on this planet while it takes 50,000 or so years to cleanse itself of our presence. I just hope the next sentient species to arise can read, and believe, what the fossil record will tell them about how stupid we really were so that they do not repeat our mistakes.

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Progress on: Petition to Demand a WORLD WAR TWO STYLE MASSIVE, ALL OUT EFFORT to transition to 100% Renewable Energy within a DECADE

Dr. v. E. Perkins, CO Jul 19, 18:02 # 315 This is our obligation to God and to our descendants and to our fellow creatures who should not be suffering at our hands.

Mr. Larry Gibson, CA Jul 19, 08:17 # 311 Stop the insane & corrupt oil industries (Koch brothers their minions. The Gift that is the Earth cannot sustain & in the short term heal this massive assault to all species on land & sea. These masters of insanity care only for themselves. We should be able to arrest them & their wealth they are using as an atomic bomb against Life on Our Earth.

Mr. Ron McCullough, TN Jul 18, 19:51 # 304 We as a nation have to free ourselves from the tyranny and boundless greed of the fossil fuel oligarchs that keep us in the Dark Ages of renewable energy. How is it good governance to destroy the Earth for short term gains for the 1%? It's not. It's the result of corruption and cowardice of elected officials and it must stop! *

*Agelbert NOTE: See list of (s)elected officials further down. After all, You have a right to know who is aiding and abetting the fossil fuel industry in the profit-over-planet s h I t canned ethics for short term profits predatory (i.e. PSEUDO) Capitalist GOAL of kiling you and your offspring.

Mr. Troy Kilbourne, MN Jul 18, 18:48 # 303 A "Manhattan Project" for renewable energy is, I believe, the only thing that can reverse our course towards catastrophic climate change. We did it back then, and we can do it now.

Mr. Stephen Spaulding, NH Jul 17, 06:00 # 302 The fossil fuel industry knows its stranglehold on us inevitably has to end. It's feverishly trying every way it can to lock us into dependence for another half-century. We cannot allow this to happen.

Below please find an assortment of bought and paid for(I mean honorable recipients of "free speech" donations from fossil fuel and nuclear power lobbies, of course! ) proud members of Congress helping destroy the biosphere in the service of Fossil Fuels:

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Progress on Petition to Demand a 100% World War 2 Style Transition to Renewable energy using the Manufacturing Miracle Model of the Liberty Ships: Mr. Ron McCullough, TN Jul 18, 19:51 # 304 We as a nation have to free ourselves from the tyranny and boundless greed of the fossil fuel oligarchs that keep us in the Dark Ages of renewable energy. How is it good governance to destroy the Earth for short term gains for the 1%? It's not. It's the result of corruption and cowardice of elected officials and it must stop!

Mr. Troy Kilbourne, MN Jul 18, 18:48 # 303 A "Manhattan Project" for renewable energy is, I believe, the only thing that can reverse our course towards catastrophic climate change. We did it back then, and we can do it now.

Mr. Stephen Spaulding, NH Jul 17, 06:00 # 302 The fossil fuel industry knows its stranglehold on us inevitably has to end. It's feverishly trying every way it can to lock us into dependence for another half-century. We cannot allow this to happen.

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Progress on Petition to Demand a 100% World War 2 Style Transition to Renewable energy using the Manufacturing Miracle Model of the Liberty Ships:

AB Jul 13, 15:01 # 288 The technology for renewable energy has already been developed and just needs investment.Leave fossil fuels down in the ground, No more pipelines! NY Jul 13, 09:10 # 285 Let's move on to renewables while there's still time to lessen greenhouse gases that heat the planet. PA Jul 13, 07:56 # 283 Don't let the fossil fuel industry destroy the country. AB Jul 11, 11:20 # 272 We need the fossil fuel fossils to join the rest of us in the 21st century! NH Jul 10, 16:56 # 266 If we had only started this in the 70's , think where we'd be today !! TX Jul 10, 14:08 # 265 This Whole Government is nothing but a Corporation, filled with a bunch of hypocrites, greedy bastards, looking out for their own self's and what they can screw the people out of. In this case, the people's money, the people's land, the people's Air, and dignity. With lies, Pollution, using slowly Genocide to kill, and rub the people of their life. Look around, open your eyes, such is all around you, if you only see reality instead of the lies they tell you. The USA, a historic leader in new technology, is getting left behind because of the profit-over-planet biosphere degrading fossil fuel industry that buys our politicians with the profits from pollution producing fuels while said politicians keep fossil fuel and nuclear power plant "subsides" (taxpayer theft!) to tilt the energy playing field against renewable energy. We need to ELIMINATE DIRTY ENERGY SUBSIDIES and start the FULL TRANSITION to CLEAN ENERGY NOW! America DOES NOT have to play second fiddle to being the first country to win the Climate Victory because of idiot greedball, war loving fossil fuelers. As part of being responsible, caring human beings, we have to pressure our government to take major action to stop the degradation of the biosphere from climate change. This is causing death and disease to both domestic animals and wildlife, all of which have done nothing to deserve such a horrible fate at our hands. It's time to eliminate the excuse our fossil fuel loving oligarchy uses for "resources" wars for oil that bring nothing but misery to us and profits for them. CA Jul 10, 11:14 # 261 The biosphere WE save WILL be our own. So far there is only one. Mr. Todd K, NC Jul 10, 05:57 # 256 This is the most important issue of most of our lives...we should already have been 100% renewable by now. Suggestion...the picture at the top of the page...change "Target" to "Goal" (or something simlilar). You don't want the Target Corporation to think you are targeting them specifically NH Jul 10, 03:57 # 254 effort long overdue... IL Jul 09, 21:41 # 251 Greed and stupidity versus commen sense before its possibly too late. This has to happen eventually, we play chess with life on the planet. Not smart. CA Jul 09, 18:22 # 243 Stop Oil - Start Future _ NOW ! OR Jul 09, 17:12 # 241 What we pay for fossil fuel is way more than what we shell out at the pump, when you consider the fossil-fuel-pillage wars and the trashing of our environment. Fossil fuel = tyranny and death. DC Jul 08, 18:55 # 236 Anything less than total renewable energy is at best irresponsible and at worst irrational. NJ Jul 08, 18:38 # 235 How and where will the 1% live after they have destroyed our world? If we do not act and act with courage. It will be as predicted we will all die not with a bang but a wimper. Please consider our children and grandchildren. What will they think of us if we do nothing? OR Jul 08, 01:26 # 233 why are our "leaders" such followers? idiots. NM Jul 07, 16:40 # 232 Ahole Hannity is forever complaining that President Obama is destroying the economy and that there will not be anything left for his grandchildren and great grandchildren. He is an utter POS.He is leading the charge to destroy the planet for OUR grandchildren and great grandchildren. He really doesn't give a damn about his children and grandchildren.CA Jul 05, 07:16 # 227 Our local, family owned company has been providing solar services to the OC and desert communities for 38 yrs.

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Progress of Petition to Rid the Planet of Dirty Energy through 100% Renewables

CA Jul 09, 18:22 # 243 Stop Oil - Start Future _ NOW !

OR Jul 09, 17:12 # 241 What we pay for fossil fuel is way more than what we shell out at the pump, when you consider the fossil-fuel-pillage wars and the trashing of our environment. Fossil fuel = tyranny and death.

DC Jul 08, 18:55 # 236 Anything less than total renewable energy is at best irresponsible and at worst irrational.

NJ Jul 08, 18:38 # 235 How and where will the 1% live after they have destroyed our world? If we do not act and act with courage. It will be as predicted we will all die not with a bang but a wimper. Please consider our children and grandchildren. What will they think of us if we do nothing?

OR Jul 08, 01:26 # 233 why are our "leaders" such followers? idiots.

NM Jul 07, 16:40 # 232 Ahole Hannity is forever complaining that President Obama is destroying the economy and that there will not be anything left for his grandchildren and great grandchildren. He is an utter POS.He is leading the charge to destroy the planet for OUR grandchildren and great grandchildren. He really doesn't give a damn about his children and grandchildren.

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CA Jul 05, 07:16 # 227 Our local, family owned company has been providing solar services to the OC and desert communities for 38 yrs.

Spain Jul 04, 07:39 # 224 I have a dream and many of us we share the same dream. We want, we wish, we dream of a better world to live in, a world where our children can grow healthy and free. Because of this, we sign this petition. I have luckily lived in peace all my life and I believed I was “free”. I have had plenty of opportunities in my life and I have the chance to realize how special we are the human beings. I have a dream and many of us we share the same dream. We want, we wish, we dream of a better world to live in, where our children can grow healthy and free. Because of this, we sign this petition. I have luckily lived in peace all my life and I believed I was “free”. I have had plenty of opportunities in my life and I have the chance to realize how special we are the human beings because we are intelligent, we are creative and we dream. I have learnt that my life has the same value as the life of a person that lived in the past and the life of person who will live in the future. They probably dream also of a better future for us or for the future predecessors..We all have different dreams but I hope that we humans keep on dreaming and carry on with this miracle of having an intelligent life in a marvelous place like planet earth. For us, for the people. Andres

CA Jul 03, 17:33 # 221 I've been off grid using solar electrcity and solar heating for more than 25 years. I also worked for an electric utility and saw how their investments in massive central coal, nuclear and natural gas plants and the interstate transmission lines required to get the energy was actually more expensive and less reliable than the long term costs of solar, wind and geothermal power. But the utility used very sophisticated bookkeeeping to hide the real cost of energy and the greater customer benefits of investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Turkey Jul 02, 23:40 # 220 All over the world we, people and NGOs have to be more proactive for changing the energy sources to renewables as gifted by our nature, stopping using the fossil fuel sources killing our nature and future.

Overall, I am not a Petition Signer, but I went ahead and signed this one. I am #222 of the Signatories.

I will do a Rant Promoting it as well AG. RE

Thank YOU, RE! You are now a Green Leaf Star American in the Service of Future Generations. I am CERTAIN your plug of the petition will, as Dr. Andres says below, provide hope for those yet to be born.This cup belongs to RE!

Dr. Andres Clemente, Spain Jul 04, 07:39 # 224

I have luckily lived in peace all my life and I believed I was “free”. I have had plenty of opportunities in my life and I have the chance to realize how special we are the human beings. I have a dream and many of us we share the same dream. We want, we wish, we dream of a better world to live in, where our children can grow healthy and free. Because of this, we sign this petition.

I have luckily lived in peace all my life and I believed I was “free”. I have had plenty of opportunities in my life and I have the chance to realize how special we are the human beings because we are intelligent, we are creative and we dream. :emthup:

I have learnt that my life has the same value as the life of a person that lived in the past and the life of person who will live in the future. They probably dream also of a better future for us or for the future predecessors.. We all have different dreams but I hope that we humans keep on dreaming and carry on with this miracle of having an intelligent life in a marvelous place like planet earth.

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More like the exhaust fumes of said "traffic" (i.e. it appears to be innocuos but we know better).

I've watched and read the comments and articles of many intelligent fellows like yourself and have a fairly good working knowledge of your modus operandi.

1. You are quite selective about who you "quibble" with in what appears to be a lack of logic for continually ignoring the 24/7 dirty energy fleecing of the American taxpayer. But it's not lack of logic or intelligence. It's corvus oculum corvi non eruit.

2. You enjoy the corruptus in extremis energy playing field status quo and vigorously defend it because cui prodest scelus is fecit.

3. You sir, are clinging to a past from which you profited economcally and refuse to accept the damage to other humans and the biosphere that you have been a party to. Instead, you wish to claim that anyone who uses ANY energy that came from fossil fuels or nuclear and advocates a 100% transition to Renewable Energy is a hypocrite. You know that isn't true but those "exhaust fumes" of yours sometimes reach those without metaphoric "gas masks" to see through your empty rhetoric disguised as impish comments.

But just for the hell of it, let's say you are right and all of us who want dirty energy out now are hypocrites, fools or worse. What have you got to lose by signing the petition? After all, nobody is going to listen to us because we are bonkers, right? YOU are the one that is supposed to be grounded in "reality" so we haven't got a prayer of getting traction on our "silly demand" so why not humor us "poor deluded souls"?

And while you are at it, why don't you argue this with your SAME ARGUMENT against pro-renewable energy people that still use some fossil fuels in daily life (see Dilworth quote below)? That is. that we are HYPOCRITES to support WARS FOR OIL and a BLOATED MILITARY? It's EXACTLY the same argument. If the shoe fits and all that, eh?

The following quote from a peer reviewed book is of extreme importance to all Americans:Dilworth (2010-03-12). Too Smart for our Own Good (pp. 399-400). Cambridge University Press. Kindle Edition.

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"As suggested earlier, war, for example, which represents a cost for society, is a source of profit to capitalists. In this way we can partly understand e.g. the American military expenditures in the Persian Gulf area. Already before the first Gulf War, i.e. in 1985, the United States spent $47 billion projecting power into the region. If seen as being spent to obtain Gulf oil, It AMOUNTED TO $468 PER BARREL, or 18 TIMES the $27 or so that at that time was paid for the oil itself.

In fact, if Americans had spent as much to make buildings heat-tight as they spent in ONE YEAR at the end of the 1980s on the military forces meant to protect the Middle Eastern oil fields, THEY COULD HAVE ELIMINATED THE NEED TO IMPORT OIL from the Middle East.

So why have they not done so? Because, while the $468 per barrel may be seen as being a cost the American taxpayers had to bear, and a negative social effect those living in the Gulf area had to bear, it meant only profits for American capitalists. "

ote: I added the bold caps emphasis on the barrel of oil price, money spent in one year and the need to import oil from the Middle East.

This totally unjustified profit, never mind the needless loss of lives, then increases the power of the fossil fuel corporations to perpetuate a biosphere harming dirty fuel status quo. How? By "funding" politicians with rather large "donations" to keep renewable energy from competing with dirty energy. It's still going on RIGHT NOW!

Sign here. http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/Ai3Tb or buy more stock in oil and coal corporations that have rewarded you ( war profiteering and contrived artificial made-in-Wall Street oil price shock welfare queen, much? ). with all those dividends that the REST OF US have funded by paying our taxes so you could enjoy la dolce vita.

It's time to reverse all this environmental trashing and get real about the fact that sustainability is not optional for a caring, intelligent human population. We are the caretakers of the biosphere because we are self aware beings. It's high time we began living up to our responsibility to be good stewards of nature.

We need to roll up our National sleeves and GIFT FUTURE GENERATIONS with a VIABLE BIOSPHERE! If we put our coordinated efforts into it, we can, like we did with the Liberty Ships in WWII, get it DONE in less than ten years!

# 204Ms. Rebecca Ratliff, TXJun 30, 08:16# 196There are more renewable energy sources than most are aware, but they are suppressed by those who want to keep the status quo. # 195For the children, the grandchildren, and the children of the grandchildren.# 194Natural gas is worse than dirty coal. It is due to methane leaking. Also, via fracking, it is destroying our water supply.# 192This is a tremendously important and crucial opportunity to do what's right for the people and our planet!# 191We spent a winter on the desert with only solar energy at our camp, with far fewer problems that we expected. It was not a big deal to power 2 computers, 2 phones, a TV, and an MP3 player. We did use propane to cook and heat water, and to power our fridge for an extra $20 a month# 184YOUR 2008 platform plank on New Energy Based Economy. DO THIS NOW. you are iin your last term. It is your legacy...the most important issue humanity faces....act on 08 platform now.# 181"If the GOP has their way, serfdom will arrive at the same time as the rising seawater." (Modified from original by 2ftunder).# 165only course of ACTION !!!!# 163Renewable energy fuels is not an IF, but a WHEN. We will encourage our friends and colleagues to INVEST in renewable energy sources and to DIVEST in fossil fuels.# 162We [the whole world] need this NOW!# 160Please Mr. President, we Americans were known as a people who could and did great things in our past. Help us to be a great and smart Country, and save our planet for our Grandchildren.

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Mr. William Solomon, VAJun 28, 19:21# 162We [the whole world] need this NOW!Mrs. Rhonda Pennell, TXJun 28, 18:57# 160Please Mr. President, we Americans were known as a people who could and did great things in our past. Help us to be a great and smart Country, and save our planet for our Grandchildren.

Mr. richard hughes, PhilippinesJun 28, 17:10# 154I have been working actively on the global warming problem since mid-70s, including in Pres. Carter's renewables program out of Los Alamos Lab. As an architect, I have designed many dozens of solar buildings and other applications, including the first solar county courthouse in America.It is a disgrace that we had a 40 year lead time on this and blew it to profit a few fatcats.

judy stetson, MAJun 28, 16:02# 151We must detox from fossil fuels right now. We should have started in the 70s.

Agelbert note: Together, we can do this. Listen to the wisdom of the people and lend a hand. Separately, we are weak; But together, we are STRONG!

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This planet is our home! Please learn about it and care for it as if your life depends upon it. IT DOES!

Ms. Karen Thatcher-Smith, CA

Jun 27, 06:58

# 139

The future of our planet is of far more consequence than the pursuit of corporate profits.

Mr. Roy Wright, NH

Jun 26, 20:12

# 138

please!

Ms. Danielle Owen, SC

Jun 26, 17:41

# 137

We have to pressure our government to take major action to stop the degradation of the biosphere from climate change.

Fracking is poisoning aquifers and destroying good farm land while sickening us, our animals and the wildlife! We must stop this despicable profit-over-planet horror!

It's time to eliminate the excuse our fossil fuel loving oligarchy uses for pollutiong our biosphere and contriving "resources" wars for oil that bring nothing but misery to us and profits for them.

The chemical corporations are also just as guilty of polluting our air, ground and water because they use fossil fuels and do not employ closed loop recycling to keep harmful chemicals from damaging the biosphere.

Help stop this pollution by making oil a liability, not an asset!

Why? Because that is what it actually is!

Burning fossil fuels is killing us. the sooner we stop "valuing" that poison, the sooner we strip the power away from the war lovers that wield it. Our very democracy is in jeopardy because of centralized energy corporations. That's right; it's just as much about political power as about energy.

Demanding 100% Renewable energy is the way, not only to the extremely important goal of a viable biosphere, but absolutely essential to regaining our democracy from the fossil fuel industry that buys our politicians with the profits from pollution fuels while said politicians keep fossil fuel and nuclear power plant "subsides" (taxpayer theft!) to tilt the energy playing field against renewable energy.

Read this quote from a peer reviewed book by Dilworth and pass it on so people can learn what oil REALLY costs we-the-people:

I started a petition on Care2: Demand Liberty From Fossil Fuels Through 100% Renewable Energy WWII Style Effort. I'm hoping that if enough people sign my petition, we can make a difference. Will you help me collect signatures by adding your name? Here's a link to the petition:

Thank you and please pass it on. We'll have real traction against the polluters if we can get 100,000 to several million signatures by September when the petition is to be delivered to the White House.

"As suggested earlier, war, for example, which represents a cost for society, is a source of profit to capitalists. In this way we can partly understand e.g. the American military expenditures in the Persian Gulf area. Already before the first Gulf War, i.e. in 1985, the United States spent $47 billion projecting power into the region. If seen as being spent to obtain Gulf oil, It AMOUNTED TO $468 PER BARREL, or 18 TIMES the $27 or so that at that time was paid for the oil itself.

In fact, if Americans had spent as much to make buildings heat-tight as they spent in ONE YEAR at the end of the 1980s on the military forces meant to protect the Middle Eastern oil fields, THEY COULD HAVE ELIMINATED THE NEED TO IMPORT OIL from the Middle East.

So why have they not done so? Because, while the $468 per barrel may be seen as being a cost the American taxpayers had to bear, and a negative social effect those living in the Gulf area had to bear, it meant only profits for American capitalists. "

Note: I added the bold caps emphasis on the barrel of oil price, money spent in one year and the need to import oil from the Middle East.

This totally unjustified profit, never mind the needless loss of lives, then increases the power of the fossil fuel corporations to perpetuate a biosphere harming dirty fuel status quo. How? By "funding" politicians with rather large "donations" to keep renewable energy from competing with dirty energy.

If all this was just about power politics, I might not be that concerned. Humans, particularly the overly ambitious and aggressive ones, have always fought and schemed to control and fleece the population at large.

But now we know the future of our biosphere is at stake. Now we know the entire edifice of dirty energy is a knife in the back of the biosphere that will destroy our species and many others.

The system, as defined by the fossil fuel fascist dystopia that currently runs most of the human affairs among the 1 billion population in the developed world that is saddling the other 6 billion, who are totally free of guilt for causing it, with this climate horror we are beginning to experience, IS quite stubborn and does not wish to change the status quo.

Mother nature will force it to do so.

Whether it is done within the next two decades or not (i.e. a switch to 100% PLUS bioremediation Renewable Energy steady state economy) will dictate the size of the consequent die off, not only of humans but thousands of other species as well.

We are now in a climate cake that has been baked for about 1,000 years according to atmospheric, objective, proven with experimental data, science.

If the crash program to switch to renewable energy is to begin soon, I expect the trigger for the crash program will be the first ice free arctic summer (according to my estimates) in 2017. But millions of people demanding a transition to 100% renewable Energy will give us a fighting chance to win the Climate Victory.

You can help us leave dirty energy sources that are killing us behind. I started a petition on Care2: Demand Liberty From Fossil Fuels Through 100% Renewable Energy WWII Style Effort. I'm hoping that if enough people sign my petition, we can make a difference. Will you help me collect more by adding your name?

For those who don't wish to bother signing or are concerned for your "privacy". Hello? Hello? This is the year 2014! By 2030 periods where the "Humid Heat Stroke Index" is so high that the human body can no longer maintain a normal core temperature will become common. Home Sap is on the short list for extinction! That is sorta more important than hiding from the NSA or the CIA now ISN'T IT? And I DO NOT see ANY of the home addresses or e-mail addresses anyway, Care2 does! So, if you CARE about future generations, you have ZERO excuse, unless you are a bought and paid for climate denying, war profiteering LOW LIFE GREEDBALL, for NOT signing.

Accept the fact you are a NIHILSTIC DEATH CULT ACCESSORY to the HOMO SAP SUICIDE or sign here (and pass this on to everyone you care about to sign too!).

Posted by: AGelbert

“There Is Nothing So Powerful As An Idea Whose Time Has Come.” Victor Hugo

Here’s to the crazy ones.

The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo.You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.

“Because The People Who Are Crazy Enough To Think They Can Change The World, Are The Ones Who Do.”

I personally work as a energy broker (selling electricity in deregulated markets at discount in Texas) as well as offering residential service in same markets I offer both customers business and homes a choice of Green or Standard and try to push the green most times higher (not always 80+% of the time) and have been able to sell 15MW Green Vs 100MW Non in the last 5 years but that's up form 0 green five years ago. I also have sold 10 solar systems in DFW zero out of pocket to the owner and lower rates for 20 years www.gosolardfw.com (not just for DFW but most of the us) area this year. I believe green is the way to go (by the way i make the same or less on green energy sales).